Hereditary Princess of Sulzbach
Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne (Maria Anna Henriette Leopoldine; 24 October 1708 – 28 July 1728) was a noblewoman born into the House of La Tour d'Auvergne . She was the suo jure Margravine of Bergen op Zoom from 1710 at the death of her father. She was the mother of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria .
Biography
Born in France, she was the only child of François-Egon de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife, Maria Anne de Ligne, daughter of Philippe Charles de Ligne d'Arenberg, Duke of Arenberg . As a member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, she was entitled to the style of Her Highness as she was a male line descendant of the family.[ 2]
Through her father, her cousins included Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne , princesse de Soubise , wife of the Maréchal de Soubise ; the Duke of Bouillon . Her sister in law was Anne Christine Louise of Bavaria , the Princess of Piedmont and wife of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont .
On 15 February 1722, she married Count Palatine John Christian of Sulzbach , the son of Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and his wife Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rothenburg . The couple had two children: a son in 1724 and a daughter in 1728. She died at Hilpoltstein at the age of 19, a month after the death of her daughter.
In 1731, four years after her death, her husband married Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg , a daughter of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort . The couple had no children. She has descendants only through her son's illegitimate issue, including the Polish Counts Raczynski. [citation needed
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Ancestors of Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne
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